Disney+ Unveils Cast For Jean Charles De Menezes Drama Series
deadline.comDisney+ has unveiled an all-star cast for its series about Jean Charles de Menezes, who was tragically mistaken for a terrorist after the London 7/7 bombings by police and shot dead.
Set to premiere in the spring, Jeff Pope’s series Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has cast a newcomer in the role of de Menezes, Edison Alcaide, who will be joined by Conleth Hill, Russell Tovey, Max Beesley, Emily Mortimer, Daniel Mays, Laura Aikman and The Crown star Alex Jennings.
Mortimer will play Cressida Dick, who went on to become the chief of the Metropolitan Police, while Hill is Sir Ian Blair, who was police chief at the time of de Menezes’ death.
The series comes 20 years after 7/7 and a wealth of documentaries about the attack that shook Britain are also airing or have already aired, including Channel 4’s Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube about de Menezes.
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